But former grand slam champion and Channel Seven commentator Jim Courier warned in News Corp papers about jumping to conclusions.

“I’m going to interpret that as, ‘If this is my last major win’.

“Roger Federer loves the game, loves the life. It would be hard to believe he would be going anywhere any time soon. This is not a Pete Sampras, one more major and walking off the stage moment,” Courier said, referring to Sampras’s retirement which occurred after not playing a single match following his 2002 US Open win over Andre Agassi.

“He is guy who has carried the weight of being Roger Federer as if it is a feather. This is a guy who is expected to win for so many years and that kind of stress is, it can be a lot on a player, but he’s always just carried it like it was natural for him, like just a normal thing.

“I assure you, it is not normal. There is very little about Roger Federer that is normal.”